Nuclear Imaging of the Chest, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998

Nuclear Imaging of the Chest provides up-to-the minute information on the diagnostic nuclear imaging of chest disorders. The authors habe endeavored to integrate and consonsolidate the many different subspecialities in order to enable a holistic understanding of chest diseases from the nuclear medicine standpoint. Highlights of the book include the description of aerosol lung imaging in COPD and the updates on breast and lung cancer imaging. It is required reading not only for nuclear medicine practitioners and researchers but also for all interested radiologists, traumatologists, pulmonologists and cardiologists.

Basics.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Anatomy and Physiology.- 3 Radiopharmaceuticals and Imaging Techniques.- Clinical Applications.- 4 Ventilation/Perfusion Scan in the Diagnosis of Acute Pulmonary Embolism.- 5 99mTc-Phytate Aerosol Scan of Nonembolic Pulmonary Diseases: A Pattern Analysis with Radiographic Correlation.- 6 Diffuse Panbronchitis and Related Diseases.- 7 Pneumoconiosis.- 8 Lung Cancer.- 9 Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome.- 10 Mucociliary Clearance.- 11 Heart Scan.- 12 Collateral Circulation in the Superior Vena Cava Syndrome.- 13 Mediastinum.- 14 The Bony Thoracic Cage.- 15 Breast Cancer.

New nuclear medicine techniques, PET and SPECT, make it possible to image a number of hitherto undiagnosed diseases of the chest * Objective selection and systematic presentation of information regarding various nuclear scan diagnosis of many thoracic diseases * Correlations are made, where reasonable, with other imaging modalities